tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post7632432746512417384..comments2019-09-14T18:22:09.669+01:00Comments on Capitalists@Work: Crow, Benn ... Who's Left?CityUnslickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15929544047783163175noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-90447792590852975642014-03-16T22:41:16.491+00:002014-03-16T22:41:16.491+00:00:-):-)lilithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05011676751221508167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-27014453318920660872014-03-16T16:25:27.410+00:002014-03-16T16:25:27.410+00:00... Oh. I see. You meant Mr Benn.
Well he could ...... Oh. I see. You meant Mr Benn. <br /><br />Well he could be a chef, a spaceman, a knight ... Electro-Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18073103431166273080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-34878922882201298172014-03-16T16:21:37.221+00:002014-03-16T16:21:37.221+00:00He&#39;s how I visualised Beast of Clerkenwell, Li...He&#39;s how I visualised Beast of Clerkenwell, Lilith. <br /><br />In reality Beast of Clerkenwell looks more like an alcoholic Alan Titchmarsh. A bit of a disappointment really. (But cracking fun all the same.)Electro-Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18073103431166273080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-52998263493446876972014-03-16T10:58:32.626+00:002014-03-16T10:58:32.626+00:00I&#39;ll miss him. He was an old charmer. With his...I&#39;ll miss him. He was an old charmer. With his twinkle and speech impediment. He even put up with my mum on a train journey once. She was all swoony when she told me about it, poor man. I think his 2007 dream was probably about right.lilithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05011676751221508167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-18263512225930249752014-03-16T08:14:00.444+00:002014-03-16T08:14:00.444+00:00nice, thank for post you
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Mall di Jakartanice, thank for post you<br />:)<br /><a href="http://infoejaman.blogspot.com/2014/03/bintaro-jaya-xchange-mall-pusat.html" rel="nofollow">Mall di Jakarta</a>pelukis langithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07338067286702624203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-55988155617050896642014-03-16T06:54:48.030+00:002014-03-16T06:54:48.030+00:00&quot;Benn was wrong on so many counts, definitely...&quot;Benn was wrong on so many counts, definitely a character he looks to belong to a different age.&quot;<br /><br />He was correct on one issue - hereditary titles. Now they do belong to a different age. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-89568554360514847172014-03-15T16:55:02.941+00:002014-03-15T16:55:02.941+00:00Benn was the first politician I ever heard speak i...Benn was the first politician I ever heard speak in the flesh, at a sixth-form post A-level &quot;civic responsibility&quot; type event in Bristol where he was MP in the 70s. Very inspirational and not pushing any left-right issues, mainly saying politicians were all doing a public service to better society and we should focus on the policies they were putting forward. Certainly made a few of us think that perhaps political ideas were cool to think about. RIPrwendlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07861901317813829419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-89715580147488192432014-03-15T00:18:14.560+00:002014-03-15T00:18:14.560+00:00@EK, bloody good point. @EK, bloody good point. Dick the Prickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02683095612320513712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-69504975296963087342014-03-14T23:44:59.682+00:002014-03-14T23:44:59.682+00:00That Crow and Benn were anti EU goes ignored by th...That Crow and Benn were anti EU goes ignored by the BBC. Electro-Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18073103431166273080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-16651419996348755122014-03-14T17:47:23.162+00:002014-03-14T17:47:23.162+00:00not sure I share that assessment, Andrew
(a) he w...not sure I share that assessment, Andrew<br /><br />(a) he was one of those people who choose to pick fights on &quot;matters of principle&quot;, which you can conjure up out of thin air if that&#39;s what turns you on, it&#39;s not difficult: but politics is about finding constructive ways forward - raising a storm over points of principle is only a short step away from violence, as can be seen in any rowdy pub on a Friday night<br /><br />I hope we all draw a line somewhere, but don&#39;t let drawing lines be a way of life<br /><br />(b) I don&#39;t recall him ever short of a bob or two: there are plenty for whom &quot;sacrificed almost everything else that was real&quot; is a lot more uncomfortableNick Drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670594203660051701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-20592792414802526402014-03-14T15:41:34.488+00:002014-03-14T15:41:34.488+00:00Against the war...
Just goes to show you cannot be...Against the war...<br />Just goes to show you cannot be wrong about everything. <br />... or for the first time in 10 years, I am left with the feeling that the was might yet turn out to be a good thing.<br /><br />He was a vocally and intellectually able man who believed in his principles to the extent he sacrificed almost everything else that was real.<br /><br /> andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07311993288675111834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-58921953208542890102014-03-14T13:23:45.895+00:002014-03-14T13:23:45.895+00:00just seen the Beeb news: Ben Wright (who interview...just seen the Beeb news: Ben Wright (who interviewed WedgieBenn a few months ago) said Benn told him he&#39;d had a dream in 2007 that he&#39;d been wrong on everything<br /><br />also that Benn&#39;s legacy was his diaries<br /><br />sounds about right on both countsNick Drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670594203660051701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-88872222463017715812014-03-14T13:11:55.137+00:002014-03-14T13:11:55.137+00:00I&#39;m not totally convinced that it counts as pa...I&#39;m not totally convinced that it counts as paranoia if the sequence of events had given rise to Benn becoming PM that MI5 wouldn&#39;t have done the decent.DtPnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-57380859682693029712014-03-14T12:30:37.732+00:002014-03-14T12:30:37.732+00:00Benn was a giant. As were Thatch and Lawson. Even ...Benn was a giant. As were Thatch and Lawson. Even Lamont looks like a hero compared with today&#39;s pigmies.<br /><br />Where are today&#39;s firebrands?Blue Eyesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-26658868077429731692014-03-14T12:23:19.773+00:002014-03-14T12:23:19.773+00:00Only noticed this now. Benn was wrong on so many c...Only noticed this now. Benn was wrong on so many counts, definately a character he looks to belong to a different age.<br /><br />He did however believe in parliamentary democracy and was against the EU, as did Enoch Powell. Like Powell, he wasnt as good at the dirty realism of politics as he might have thought.hovisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-41848720409372089742014-03-14T11:59:36.605+00:002014-03-14T11:59:36.605+00:00BQ - yes, a great read that book, and it certainly...BQ - yes, a great read that book, and it certainly puts the knife into Benn, who clearly was more interested in himself than the Labour Party. But what really gets me about the lurvvvv bestowed on the man is that he was yet another member of the post-war Left who refused to acknowledge what Stalin and Mao did. <br /><br />Here&#39;s Benn on Mao, when Mao died.<br /><br />..he was &quot;a great admirer of Mao … he made mistakes, because everybody does&quot;.Elby the Beserkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15060519682739666145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-79875418004687184792014-03-14T11:54:55.081+00:002014-03-14T11:54:55.081+00:00Neither Crow nor Benn liked Blair.
If this is wha...Neither Crow nor Benn liked Blair.<br /><br />If this is what passes for &#39;national treasure&#39; then perhaps we oughtn&#39;t be surprised when it gets buried.Electro-Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18073103431166273080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-53885346973597513032014-03-14T11:50:32.947+00:002014-03-14T11:50:32.947+00:00&quot;Stop the war saved him really. Finally gave ...&quot;Stop the war saved him really. Finally gave him something he could actually be right about for once.&quot; What a wonderful epitome of the God-awfulness of Blair.<br />deariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-54664992390171057622014-03-14T10:27:44.197+00:002014-03-14T10:27:44.197+00:00Excellent Nick!
I&#39;m reading Dominic Sandbrook...Excellent Nick!<br /><br />I&#39;m reading Dominic Sandbrook&#39;s massive seasons in the sun - 1974-1979. <br />Benn comes across as as paranoid as Wilson. He was convinced he was going to be assassinated by MI5.<br />And he was sure that army was going to step in with a coup and remove the labour government. And Sandbrook is fairly sympathetic to the man.<br /><br />Seems he was quite toxic even back in the 1970s.He was the minister that featured the least in the party politicals and was shunted to far away venues to talk to a handful of activists to keep him out of the papers. <br />Wilson&#39;s campaign strategist thought that the Bennite rhetoric was good for the party but &quot;was obviously complete fantasy for a proper government and Harold had no intention of implementing any part of it..&quot;<br /><br />Stop the war saved him really. Finally gave him something he could actually be right about for once.<br /><br />Bill Quango MPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14861116614665461655noreply@blogger.com